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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also talks about the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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